The New Year Honours 1926 were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were published on 29 December 1925.
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.
British Empire
Viscount The Right Honourable Edgar, Baron D'Abernon, , His Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin since 1920. The Right Honourable Andrew Graham, Baron Dunedin, , a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary; Keeper of the Great Seal of the Principality of Scotland.
Baron The Right Honourable Geoffrey Henry, Baron Oranmore and Browne, . The Right Honourable Sir Ernest Murray Pollock, , Master of the Rolls, Justice of the Peace for Hertfordshire, Member of Parliament for Warwick and Leamington, 1910–1923.
Privy Councillor Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Francis Stanley Jackson, , Chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party since March 1923. Financial Secretary to the War Office, 1922. Member of Parliament for the Howdenshire Division of Yorkshire since 1915. Colonel George Richard Lane-Fox, , Parliamentary Secretary for Mines, Department of Board of Trade. Charity Commissioner 1921. Member of Parliament for the Barkston Ash Division of the West Riding of Yorkshire since 1906. Charles, Baron Bledisloe, , Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries since November 1924. Major the Honourable Joseph Gordon Coates, , Prime Minister of the Dominion of New Zealand. The Honourable Sir Francis Henry Dillon Bell, , Attorney-General, Minister of External Affairs, and Leader of the Legislative Council, Dominion of New Zealand.
Baronet William Waters Butler, . For valuable political and philanthropic services in Birmingham. Member of Council of Birmingham University. Sidney Hutchinson Byass, . For political, public and philanthropic services. President of the Mid-Glamorgan Conservative Association. High Sheriff of the County. Mayor of Aberavon for three consecutive years. Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke, , Member of Parliament for Devonport, January 1910; for Devonport Division, December 1918, and November 1922, and for Cardiff East since 1924. Founded in 1905 the Central Emigration Board of which he is chairman, and has done yeoman work in connection with emigration. For political and public services. The Right Honourable Sir Henry Craik, , Member of Parliament for Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities, 1906, and for the Scottish Universities since December 1918. Secretary of the Scottish Education Department, 1885–1904. For political and public services. Herbert Gibson, President of the Law Society which celebrates its centenary this year. Sir Robert Jones, , President, Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. Edmund Russborough Turton, , Member of Parliament for Thirsk and Malton Division since February 1915. Chairman of the North Riding Quarter Sessions since 1898. Member of the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform 1916–17; the Royal Commission on London Government, 1921; and of the Royal Commission on Local Government, 1923.
Knight Bachelor Thomas Hudson Beare, , Regius Professor of Engineering and Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Edinburgh Robert Alfred Bolam, , chairman of the council, British Medical Association. Albert Herbert Brewer, , Organist and Master of Choristers at Gloucester Cathedral since 1897. Conductor of the Three Choirs Festivals. George Washington Browne, , President of the Royal Scottish Academy. Edmund Fleming Bushby. For public and political services in Wrexham. A County Councillor for Denbighshire. Joseph Herbert Cunliffe, . Member of Parliament for Bolton since December 1923. H.M. Attorney General for the Duchy of Lancaster since 1921. Member of the General Council of the Bar and of the Council of Legal Education. Stanford Edwin Downing, Secretary of the Ecclesiastical Commission. Professor John Bretland Farmer, , Member of Advisory Council to Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Governor of Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad. Patrick Johnston Ford, . Member of Parliament for North Edinburgh, April 1920-24 and since October 1924. A Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and Scottish Whip, 1923. James Ellison Haggas, . For public and charitable services in Keighley. For 27 years chairman and President of the Keighley Conservative and Unionist Association. Alderman Hugh Hall, . For political and public services in Oxford. Has been associated with public work in Oxford since 1875. Chairman of Oxford City Conservative Association since 1917. William Edward Hart, , Town Clerk of Sheffield. Alfred James Hawkey, . For public and political services. Vice-chairman of Epping Conservative Association. Chairman of Woodford Urban District Council for ten years. Bertram Hornsby, , Governor of the National Bank of Egypt. Thomas Raffles Hughes, , Chairman of the General Council of the Bar. Major Aston McNeill Cooper Cooper-Key, , Chief Inspector of Explosives, Home Office. Charles Marstan, . For eighteen years President of West Wolverhampton Conservative Association. Past President of the Cycle and Motor Cycle Manufacturers' and Traders' Union and of the Cycle Engineers' Institute. For political and public services. William Meff, Ex-Lord Provost of Aberdeen. Matthew Walker Montgomery, Lord Provost of Glasgow since 1923. George Edward James Moody. For political and public services. For 30 years a Member of the Cleethorpes Urban District Council of which he has been Chairman eight times. Chairman of the Grimsby Unionist Association. Robert John Parr, , Director of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Alderman William George Perring, . Member of Parliament for North Paddington since 1918. President of the National Chamber of Trade. Has served on the Paddington Borough Council since its inception. William Ramsden, , Chairman of the Huddersfield Local Employment Committee. For public services in Huddersfield. Alfred Cooper Rawson, . Member of Parliament for Brighton since November 1922; Member of London County Council 1913–21; Member of Wandsworth Borough Council 1911–22, and Mayor 1918–19. Henry Montagu Rogers, , Chairman of the Conservative Party in the Camborne Division for fifteen years. Chairman of the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Association, 1924. For political and public services in Cornwall. Julius Sladden, Chairman of the Evesham Conservative and Unionist Association since 1908 and Leader of the Party in Evesham since 1880. Member of the Worcestershire County Council since 1902. For political and public services. Captain Oscar Emanuel Warburg, , Chairman of the London County Council. Member of the Paddington Borough Council since 1909. Member of the Paddington Conservative Association since 1909 and vice-president of the Hackney Conservative Association since 1910. For political and public services. Alderman George Wright, . For 20 years Chairman of the Central Conservative Council for the Ealing Division, and for 38 years chairman and then President of the Acton Conservative Association. For 38 years Member of the Middlesex County Council. For political and public services.
India Mr. Justice John Guy Rutledge, , Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature, Rangoon. Diwan Bahadur Tinnevelly Nellaiyappa Pillai Sivagnanam Pillai Avargal, Minister for Development, Madras. Khan Bahadur Shaikh Ghulam Husain Hidayatallah, Minister for Local Self-Government, Bombay. Sardar Bahadur Sardar Sundar Singh Majithia, , Member of the Executive Council, Punjab. Mr. Justice William Watkin Phillips, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature, Madras. Mr. Justice Charu Chunder Ghose, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature, Calcutta. Mr. Justice Saiyid Muhammad Abdul Raoof, Khan Bahadur, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature, Lahore. Mr. Justice Louis Stuart, , Indian Civil Service, Chief Judge of the Oudh Chief Court, United Provinces. Mr. Justice Benjamin Herbert Heald, , Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature, Rangoon. Frederick Austin Hadow, , Member, Railway Board, Government of India. Philip Joseph Hartog, , Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dhaka. Lionel Linton Tomkins, , Inspector-General of Police, Punjab. Charles Augustus Tegart, , Commissioner of Police, Calcutta. Reginald Arthur Spence, Member of the Legislative Assembly, Director of Messrs. Phipson and Company, Bombay. Shankar Madho Chitnavis, , Member of the Legislative Council, and formerly Minister, Central Provinces. Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Powell Connor, , Indian Medical Service.
Dominions Henry Brett, of the City of Auckland, Dominion of New Zealand, formerly Mayor of that City; in recognition of his public services. William Brunton, the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Melbourne; in recognition of his public services to the State of Victoria. The Honourable John William Evans, , lately Speaker of the House of Assembly, State of Tasmania. Nicholas Colston Lockyer, , Chairman of the Australian Imperial Force Canteen Funds Trust, formerly Comptroller-General of the Department of Trade and Customs, Commonwealth of Australia. Colonel William Lennon Raws, , Federal President, Associated Chambers of Commerce, Commonwealth of Australia. Henry Francis Wigram, formerly Member of the Legislative Council and Mayor of Christchurch, Dominion of New Zealand; in recognition of his public services.
Colonies, Protectorates, Etc. Kenneth James Beatty, Chief Justice of Bermuda. Chow Shou-son, Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. Arturo Mercieca, , Chief Justice and President of the Court of Appeal, Island of Malta. Alexander Mosley, , formerly President of the Chamber of Commerce and Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of Gibraltar. Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls, , lately Principal Medical Officer, Dominica, Leeward Islands.
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Royal Navy Admiral Sir Alexander Ludovic Duff, .
Army General the Honourable Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence, , Colonel 17th/21st Lancers, Colonel The Manchester Regiment, Honorary Colonel 6th/7th Battalion (Territorial) The Manchester Regiment, Retired Pay. General Frederick Rudolph, Earl of Cavan, , Colonel Irish Guards, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, The War Office.
Civil Division The Right Honourable Sir Edward Frederick Grey Ponsonby, . For services rendered to three successive Sovereigns during more than thirty years.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis Clinton-Baker, . Surgeon Vice-Admiral Joseph Chambers, .
Army Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Crofton Campbell Uniacke, . Major-General Richard Bannatine-Allason, , Colonel Commandant Royal Artillery, Retired Pay.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond, .
Civil Division John Lamb, , Under Secretary for Scotland.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Richard Grenville Arthur Wellington Stapleton-Cotton, . Rear-Admiral Henry Edgar Grace. Captain Bernard St. George Collard, , Royal Navy. Paymaster Captain Henshaw Robert Russell, , Royal Navy.
Army Colonel George Vawdrey, , assistant director of Military Transport, Woolwich Arsenal. Colonel Arthur Milton Bent, , Officer in Charge of Records, Exeter. Colonel (Temporary Colonel Commandant) Charles Arthur Ker, , Colonel, Royal Artillery (Heavy), Southern Command. Colonel (Temporary Colonel Commandant) Wallace Duffield Wright, , Brigade Commander, 8th Infantry Brigade, Southern Command.